Quirizio Di Giovanni Da Murano
Quirizio di Giovanni da Murano or Quirizio da Murano or Quiricius (Venice ), was an Italian people, Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. Biography Little is known about this painter. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Antonio of Murano, though conjectures by critics vary about him and his work. The probability is that he did little alone, but was one of the assistants in the Vivarini workshop. His use of tempera is similar to the school of Murano, flat, light, and with little or no shade. His type of head is regular and well-shaped, fingers and neck long, waist very slender. Works * ''The Savior'' / ''Christ Showing His Wounds and the Host to a Clarissan Nun'' (1460–1478) : The painting was made for the monastery of Poor Clares, Saint Clare on Murano island and shows a rather feminine Christ holding his wounded breast. Now in thAcademia in Venice painting tempera and oil on panel. * (Venice, ) (tempera)
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Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the '' Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historica ...
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